اِطَّلَعَperuse

Example sentences

• وَلَوْ قُلتُ إِنِّي اِطَّلَعْتُ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ مُجَلَّدًا، كَانَ أَكْثَرُ،

  And if I said: 'Indeed I have perused twenty thousand volumes,' it would be more.

  اِطَّلَعْتُ — I perused. A past-tense verb with the -tu 'I' ending, built on an internally augmented pattern that gives a sense of looking-into or perusing. The augmented shape is what colours the bare root with that deliberate, thorough nuance. The -tu fixes the speaker as the one who did it.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →